Why medical devices need their own law

Published: April 30, 2019 1:03:50 AM

Policymakers need to view devices and drugs differently in order to make them safe and consider regulating devices under the ministry of health.

The Drugs Act itself needs reforms as it does not uniformly and equitably regulate quality from state-to-state in the absence of a national singular regulatory authority and there is no point of replicating this limitation for devices too.